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| Title: | Go-and-V, Come-and-V, Go-V and Come-V: A corpus-based account of deictic movement verb constructions. |
| Author: | Steve Nicolle |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Africa International University |
| Linguistic Field: | Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics |
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English
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| Abstract: | This paper aims to complement recent work on deictic movement verb constructions by using a corpus-based approach to identify differences between the four deictic movement verb constructions: go-and-V, come-and-V, go-V and come-V, and to evaluate the proposal made in Nicolle (2007) that go/come-V developed from go/come-and-V in the context of imperative clauses. It will be shown that this is a possible scenario for the development of go-V from go-and-V, although come-V may have developed by analogy with go-V rather than independently from come-and-V. Finally, subjectification will be proposed as a motivating factor in the development of both go-V and come-V. |
| Type: | Individual Paper |
| Status: | Completed |
| Publication Info: | English Text Construction. 2: 185-208 |
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